6/22/2023 0 Comments Ohio novel stephen markley![]() New Canaan, Ohio is a town where the effects of war, drugs, suicide. ![]() ![]() Markley’s novel is alternately disturbing and gorgeous, providing a broad view of the anxieties of a post-9/11 Middle America and the complexities of the humans who navigate them. Ohio by Stephen Markley is a fictional account of a town that prosperity has forgotten. As the night progresses, the long-buried truth behind a horrifying town legend takes shape, offering a window into the raw forces that shape the town and its residents. There’s Bill Ashcraft, who drives into town to deliver a package to a familiar recipient Stacey Moore, a doctoral candidate who’s sucked into the mystery of her former lover’s disappearance veteran Dan Eaton, who returns from Afghanistan with a prosthetic eyeball and emotional wounds and Tina Ross, who confronts a violent part of her past. Over the course of one night-interlaced with high school flashbacks-the four settle old scores and uncover some of the town’s nefarious secrets. Once a bastion of steel-mill industry, New Canaan has been corroded by economic downturn and opiates it’s pervaded by a sense of disillusionment shared by the four, whose rudderless adult lives pale alongside the blinding lights of their adolescence. ![]() In Markley’s standout debut novel (following nonfiction works Publish This Book and Tales of Iceland), four former high school classmates return to their Ohio hometown to make amends. ![]()
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